United States Post Office (San Pedro, Los Angeles)

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US Post Office--San Pedro Main
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
San Pedro Post Office, 2008
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Location	San Pedro, California
Coordinates	33°44′11″N 118°16′51″W / 33.73639°N 118.28083°W / 33.73639; -118.28083Coordinates: 33°44′11″N 118°16′51″W / 33.73639°N 118.28083°W / 33.73639; -118.28083
Built	1935
Architect	Simon, Louis A.; Martin, Fletcher
Architectural style	WPA moderne; Classized Art Deco
MPS	US Post Office in California 1900-1941 TR
NRHP reference No.	85000132 [1]
Added to NRHP	January 11, 1985

U.S. Post Office in San Pedro, California is a historic Streamline Moderne Post Office built in 1935 as a Works Project Administration project. Designed by Louis A. Simon and Fletcher Martin in the WPA modern style, a conservative or classicized Art Deco, the San Pedro Post Office was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The building also formerly served as a U.S. Customs Office. The building's use of marble, bronze and milk glass are typical of 1930s architecture for U.S. government buildings. The floor tile is laid in a basket weave pattern surrounded by black marble, giving the effect of rugs on a marble floor. Some of the original bronze lamps and ink wells are still intact at the public writing desks. The mural inside the Post Office Building was painted by Fletcher Martin in 1938 and is titled "Mail Transportation."[1] Martin (born 1904) also painted WPA-era murals at the U.S. Post Office buildings in , and Kellogg, Idaho.[2]

WPA-era mural of mail carriers at San Pedro Post Office

See also[]

• List of Registered Historic Places in Los Angeles
• List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in the Harbor area

• List of United States Post Offices

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